Improvement in masks for medical purposes



HELEN MQROWLEYQ Mask for Medical Purposes. N0.165,955Patentedluly27,l875.

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NI'IED TA'I'ES HELEN M. ROWLEY, OF VAN WERT, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN MASKS FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,955, dated July 27,1875; application filed April 9, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HELEN M. RowLEY, of VanWert, in the county of Van Wert, Ohio, have invented a Mask for MedicalPurposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correctdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 represents the mask applied to the face, andFig. 2 is a separate view of the mask.

My invention consists in the application, as a medical agent, to theface of a person suffering with certain forms of disease, or afflictedwitha bad complexion, of a mask made of flexible india'rubber, eitherfor the purpose of exciting perspiration with a view to soften andclarify the skin by relieving the pores and the superficial circulation,or for the purpose of applying and confining nnguents or other medicalpreparations to the skin of the face for the palliation or cure ofcutaneous eruptions, blotches, pimples, or other similar compleXionaldefects.

My invention is peculiarly adapted to the needs of ladies who desire toimprove their complexion and I contemplate its being worn during thehours of sleep.

For freckles or fugitive discolorations, and for clogged pores andcapillary congestion,

the perspiration excited by covering the face with a medium whichprevents .the escape by evaporation of the cutaneous transpiration, actsas a bleaching agent, and to relieve the loaded pores and congestedcapillary vessels. But for affections requiring specific remedies themedical agent adapted to the particular ailment may be applied in theshape of an ointment or plastic preparation spread lipon the interiorsurface of the mask. The mask should be made so flexible as to applyitself readily and closely to the face of the wearer.

What I claim as my invention, and. desi1e to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a mask made throughout of flexibleindia-rubber, for the purpose of being applied to the face, as and forthe purposes specified.

' The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed atVan 'Wert this 28th day of March, A. D. 1874.

MRS. HELEN M. ROWLEY.

